Alkistis Skalkidou

@mhdksafa Hello

I know this tweet is unprofessional on my part, but it's unavoidable. They've destroyed my life in every way, leaving me with nothing—no career, no income, no safety, nothing but my voice—and now they're trying to take that away from me too! I will fight back to get my voice back! I will not be silenced. Without your support my voice will never recover from censorship! Without engagement my voice will never back again. That’s why I am tweeting this and feel ashamed of tweeting such tweet. But it is necessary! I wonder if I said hello how many of my 550K followers would be able to see this tweet and would say it back in support of my voice? Would it be 550k hellos! Let's try it... Hello! Take 60 seconds and do it for me!

"It is a fundamental right of a woman to decide whether and when she has children, and is central to gender justice." A new Editorial advocates for women's abortion rights and reproductive health globally: spkl.io/6016A4Tum

The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t. ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what this mean for applicants. link.europa.eu/xF7kjc

Cientos de millones de personas en todo el planeta viven sumidas en la pobreza extrema. Y, sin embargo, existen riquezas desproporcionadas que permanecen en manos de unos pocos. Es una situación injusta ante la que no podemos dejar de interrogarnos y de comprometernos para cambiar las cosas. En la base de la desigualdad no hay una falta de recursos, sino la necesidad de afrontar problemas solucionables relativos a una distribución más justa, que debe llevarse a cabo con sentido moral y honestidad.

"Every 1% increase in military spending drives a 0·62% reduction in public health spending." On the cover, a new letter examines the relationship between military spending and public health expenditure during conflicts. Find out more in our latest issue: spkl.io/6014AN1hC

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

We often wonder how people could look away from the atrocities committed by Leopold II, Hitler, or the devastation of nuclear bombs.. until we realize we’re living through our own moment of silence...

At first, children whose mothers had an epidural seemed to have slightly more behaviour difficulties at 18 months. After we allowed for other factors like mother's age, mental health, fear of birth & length of labour, the epidural was not linked to worse behaviour. @SanaAsif489055 @ASkalkidou #anaesthesia #obstetrics #paediatrics #MedTwitter doi.org/10.1111/anae.7…

Harvard researchers put 24 office workers in the same room for 6 days. They changed one thing about the air. The workers didn't know. Then they tested their brains. Cognitive scores doubled. Here's what the air you're breathing right now is doing to your brain:

They’re bombing orphanages now.

This is a great open-access resource (The Genotype-Phenotype Map) linking fine-mapped GWAS summary statistics for 16,000 traits and molecular QTLs for 2.7 million omics measurements with colocalization across significant loci.

The hostages held by Israel facing imminent summary execution for being Palestinian include about 700 children.

Very good reporting from the NYT in Cuba: “Elsewhere in the hospital, doctors and nurses dashed to ventilators that were pumping air into the lungs of sick newborns. The machines’ battery systems died years ago, so health workers have to squeeze a rubber pump to keep the babies breathing until the generators start to work. “With fuel running so short, the gas generators may be only a temporary savior. Nurses in the hospital’s neonatal unit said they already have plans for a fully powerless hospital: swaddle newborns in blankets and put them back into dead incubators, hoping they stay warm enough to survive.” nytimes.com/2026/03/26/wor…

U.N. experts demand Israel release prominent Gaza doctor after reports of 'severe torture.' nbcnews.com/world/gaza/un-…

Doctors are manually operating ventilators in order to keep babies alive in Cuba. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.

War doesn't bring peace. It just teaches the next generation new reasons to hate. #ChoosePeace.

Independent expert @FranceskAlbs presents latest report to the Human Rights Council #HRC61. “What once operated in the shadows is now practiced openly: a regime of organised humiliation, pain & degradation, sanctioned at the highest political levels.” ohchr.org/en/documents/c…

The 4 biomarkers to meaningfully assess a person's risk of coronary artery disease @rayshafarah @aklfahed @pnatarajanmd @JACCJournals @uk_biobank sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Babies in incubators will die tonight. Children needing surgery. Women giving birth.

Today, Cuba went dark. Not a neighborhood. Not a city. THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. 10 million people. No power. Right now. And the U.S. government did this on purpose. 🧵